This may be old, but I hadnÂ’t seen it before this week. Since I havenÂ’t seen it on any other blogs I thought I would share it with you all. The instructions are in Chinesse or something so here they are in Engrish er English.

River IQ Test

The object is to get everyone across the river.

Everybody has to cross the river, but there are rules:

A. Only 2 people on the raft at a time.
2. The father can not stay with any of the daughters without their motherÂ’s presence (or he will beat the snot out of them).
D. The mother can not stay with any of the sons without their fatherÂ’s presence (or she will beat the snot out of them).
4. The thief (striped shirt) can not stay with any family member if the Policeman is not there. (The thief will beat the snot out of a family member)
5. Only the Father, the Mother and the Policeman know how to operate the raft.
6. To start click on the big blue circle on the right.
7. To move the people click on them. To move the raft click on the handle. (Red circles)

It is possible, once you figure out a couple of small things it will get easier. It took me about 15 minutes to figure it out the first time and IÂ’m not the sharpest tool in the shed. The above picture is shot from when I figured it out.

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I picked up the Winchester Model 94 today. Boy was I in for a big surprise, of the good kind! First, I had checked the stores website on Sunday, they had it advertised on there for $50.00 less then they charged Ktreva. At first I thought it was a different rifle, but the medallion in the stock kind of gave it away. When I brought this to their attention they refunded her the $50.00 plus tax difference, and apologized for the mistake! How cool was that?

Here she is:

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Then I noticed something else about it that I hadnÂ’t really paid attention to when I picked it out. ItÂ’s an Illinois Sesquicentennial Commemorative .30-30 carbine. It was made in 1968 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the IllinoisÂ’ statehood. ItÂ’s never been fired, until I today it doesnÂ’t look like itÂ’s even been cocked! There is not a blemish, scratch or mark on it. ItÂ’s in pristine condition. It came in the original box (The box has seen better days) and with the paper work! Check out this registration card!

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Again, how cool is that? Fortunately Winchester still has their website up so I was able to register it that way and keep the original warranty card. I donÂ’t know if the gun shop had this thing sitting around for the last 38 years and wasnÂ’t able to sell it or if they bought it off of a guy that had it in his own private collection. Either way I donÂ’t care, itÂ’s mine now!

Now some people might tell me to put this up and never use it. To me that is an insult to such a fine tool. It begs to be shot, to be used. Would you buy a car and never drive it? Would you buy jewelry and never wear it? Well IÂ’m not buying a rifle and not shooting it! The next time I can get some people together to go shooting, itÂ’s going with!

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Back in the early 90Â’s I was a metal head. I know some of you find that hard to believe. Such a quiet, shy and well-reserved gentleman as myself being a disciple of that devil music. Well I was, youÂ’ll just have to accept me for who I am. In fact I still listen to a lot of metal, both modern and from the 80Â’s and 90Â’s.

One of my favorite bands from back then was GWAR. I loved this band, their songs where a mix of punk and metal with lyrics that where just for shock factor. They dressed in some pretty unusual costumes and they even had interesting stage shows. The one time I saw them in Chicago they took people from the audience and fed them through a giant meat grinder on stage. The grinder then shot “blood” and ground meat into the audience. Yes, I tried to get into the grinder, no I didn’t make get to get turned into a stage effect. They gave themselves unusual names like Oderous Urungus, Flattus Maximus, Beefcake the Mighty, Jizmak Da Gusha and Balzak the Jaws of Death. They also had some support cast that would appear or do gust songs, one of my favorites guests was the Sexicutioner (hence the title of this post, it's a slaughtering of one of his songs. )

In college I had a poster for GWAR hanging on my wall it had Slymenstra Hymen on it. My blogless buddy Jay came down to visit me one weekend while I was in college, and while drunk decided she was the hottest chic he had ever laid his eyes on. Actually to this day I think he still fantasizes about her.

So why am I giving you all this information. Simply, my buddy Shadoglare of Refractional Darkness sent me an e-mail link. THEY ARE MAKING GWAR ACTION FIGURES!!!!!

Did I mention I loved this band? I have all of their albums, I had a t-shirtÂ… stupid college washing machines, and I know the lyrics to most of their songs. IÂ’m a full-blown Bohab! These guys rock! I need MUST get the entire collection! It is a moral imperative!

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1 Dooood. Of course they are making GWAR action figures. ex-GWAR fans have disposable income now!

Like Beavis and Butthead (NOT)

Posted by: caltechgirl at January 18, 2006 06:01 PM (/vgMZ)

2 Hehehe I thought you might dig those

Posted by: Shadoglare at January 18, 2006 07:08 PM (Om7y2)

3 Damn good thing you got an ebay thingy. Now you can go on the hunt.

Posted by: Tammi at January 18, 2006 07:52 PM (lfQya)

4 If I had known you would get so excited I would have told you I saw two of these recently....sigh.

Posted by: littlejoe at January 18, 2006 10:29 PM (vBIjH)

5 And you're going to explain to your boys that Daddy plays with dolls, I mean, oops, action figures, HOW?

Posted by: Raging Mom at January 19, 2006 07:53 AM (L+bvJ)

6 That's just more fodder for minions at work.

I can see the whole lineup on your desk.

I can see you telling your minions to talk to Jizmak Da Gusha because you're too busy right now.

Posted by: Ogre at January 20, 2006 10:53 AM (/k+l4)

7 ... she was known as "Slimy Hymen".. I do believe I have been rendered speechless.....

Posted by: Eric at January 20, 2006 04:13 PM (r5XsL)

8 These figs are going to rock and I hope they are 7' inch not 8! They are making mini versions too? This news has made my bohabian day!

Posted by: TimMetal at January 20, 2006 05:49 PM (4MpSU)

9 More pics of Beefcake action figure
http://www.action-figure.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=19120

Posted by: edgyrob at February 25, 2006 01:15 PM (7JVQM)

10 You can pre-order them finally!
http://www.shockertoys.com/gwarorder.htm

Posted by: Hammersmith at June 12, 2006 05:26 PM (fMVyr)

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Some people like The Lord of the Rings Triligy. Some people like doll houses.

Some people combine those likes into a strange new hobby of making a miniature middle earth.

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